Helix Solutions

Fri Jul 5 14:30:51 UTC 2013

Classic snowshoe setup. A /24 full of randomized reverse dns records
emitting spam that's sent over gre tunnels from a single mothership. Either
that or 'seo' on much the same principle.

--srs (htc one x)
On 05-Jul-2013 7:58 PM, "eric clark" <cabenth at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen this sort of thing popping up before.
>
> Don't quite understand how its going to work. Leasing I understand. So long
> as you are willing to suffer the revocation of the IP space should the
> company that was actually ISSUED the IP space looses it for whatever
> reason...
>
> "Buying" I really don't get. IP space that is issued by a registrar is not
> owned. It is assigned. Sure, its yours until they want it back or you give
> it back, but its not owned. So, for a person to sell space that was
> allocated to them, just doesn't make sense.
>
> The "provide via GRE or other tunnel" makes me think they're tunneling your
> traffic to the actual assignee's  environment, which would make sense, but
> then that assignee has to deal with your bandwidth, don't they? Obviously,
> if you take all of their space, you could physically move it, but if you're
> only dealing with a portion, and ARIN has it assigned to AS xxx, then you
> have to be running AS xxx...
>
> Sketchy and messy and I don't see how its appropriate.
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton at mnsi.net> wrote:
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> >
> > Sounds sketchy.
> >
> > Helix Solutions is a specialized IP technology firm, offering the largest
> > inventory of IPv4 address space. Our objective is to enable email
> marketers
> > to overcome the acute IP shortage and communicate with their target
> > audiences smoothly and effectively.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 09:47 AM 05/07/2013, Alessandro Ratti wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 03:06:19PM +0200, Alessandro Ratti wrote:
> >> > > Hi list,
> >> > >
> >> > > I have a question for you.
> >> > > Anyone knows or has had to deal with Helix Solutions?
> >> >
> >> > The Swiss guys: http://helix-it.ch/
> >> > ?
> >> >
> >>
> >> No seems US company.
> >> http://www.helixsolutions.net/
> >>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Clayton Zekelman
> > Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
> > 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
> > Windsor, Ontario
> > N8W 1H4
> >
> > tel. 519-985-8410
> > fax. 519-985-8409
> >
> >
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